White and Company's Goose Lake Tile Works · Photo: Teemu08 · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Goose Lake Township are higher than in 87% of U.S. towns
Only 1% work in Goose Lake Township itself; outside it, Joliet draws the most (9%, 13 miles). Jobs and income earn Goose Lake Township A+; getting around on foot earns it D−. 6% of workers work from home, against 16% across Illinois.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Goose Lake Township in brief
Stores, warehouses and trucking
74% of the jobs in Goose Lake Township are in trade, transport and utilities, against 27% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Goose Lake Township is where the jobs are
Goose Lake Township has 1,337 jobs, 1.6 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
The jobs in Goose Lake Township pay better than its residents’ jobs
94% of the jobs based in Goose Lake Township pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 65% of the jobs Goose Lake Township residents hold. 99% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Goose Lake Township. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 858 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Goose Lake Township earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Goose Lake Township is better than 95% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate is its strongest input (hardly any, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 64% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
Unemployment (10.5%) is left out: Goose Lake Township’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Goose Lake Township could be anywhere from A− to A+.
94% of the jobs in Goose Lake Township pay over $3,333 a month
1,337 jobs are based in Goose Lake Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Goose Lake Township, 2014 → 2024: 1,323 → 1,337. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Goose Lake Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who works in Goose Lake Township, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 847 residents head out to work, 11 work right here, and 1,326 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,300 people are in Goose Lake Township on a workday afternoon, 27% more than live here.
1.6 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Where Goose Lake Township’s workforce comes from
Where Goose Lake Township clocks in
9% of workers
8% of workers
7% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Commuting from Goose Lake Township: about 34 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Goose Lake Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 485 commuters (the 5% who work from home are left out). Across Illinois: 78% drive alone, 7% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Where in the region Goose Lake Township works
About 15% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Goose Lake Township is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Goose Lake Township is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Goose Lake Township near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 513 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.0% of Goose Lake Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Goose Lake Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Goose Lake Township is 183rd among 6,085 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 1% | A+ |
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| 25 | Tower Lakes IL | 1,201 | $154K | 2.0% | 2.8% | 1% | A+ |
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| 35 | Bannockburn IL | 1,308 | $214K | 5.1% | 1.8% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 40 | Prestbury IL | 2,045 | $165K | 1.9% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 181 | Boston Township OH | 1,396 | $92K | 2.7% | 9.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 182 | Bridgewater CT | 1,677 | $159K | 3.0% | 3.6% | 8% | A+ |
| 183 | Goose Lake Township IL | 1,784 | $117K | 0.0% | 10.5% | 1% | A+ |
| 184 | New Baltimore OH | 1,585 | $159K | 5.7% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| 185 | Minerva Park OH | 1,950 | $131K | 4.6% | 3.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6,085 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 7% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Goose Lake Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
Work in the towns next to Goose Lake Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Goose Lake Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goose Lake Township | – | A+ | D− | 34 min | $116,648 |
| Wauponsee Township | under 2% | A− | D | 23 min | $117,928 |
| Aux Sable Township | under 2% | A− | C+ | 31 min | $109,269 |
| Felix Township | under 2% | C+ | C+ | 25 min | $70,843 |
| Morris Township | under 2% | B | B+ | 21 min | $74,458 |
| Wilmington Township | under 2% | — | — | 22 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Wilmington Township: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Goose Lake Township’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Goose Lake Township: questions
What is the median household income in Goose Lake Township?
$116,648 (±$37,147) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Goose Lake Township?
0.0%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Goose Lake Township?
34 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Goose Lake Township work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Joliet (9%, 13 mi), Chicago (8%, 45 mi), Morris (7%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Goose Lake Township walkable?
Goose Lake Township is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 3.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Goose Lake Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Goose Lake Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Goose Lake Township
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.